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Name:
RAO Xin
Education:
Ph.D.
Research direction:
 
Academic
title:
Associate Professor
Postal Code:
210008
Subject
categories:
Palaeontology
Mailing
Address:
29 East Bejing Road, Nanjing, China
E-mail:
xinrao@nigpas.ac.cn

Resume:

2020.02 – now. Associate Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (CAS).

2015.08 –2020.01. Assistant Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (CAS).

2012.09 – 2015.07. Ph.D. Candidate; Major in Palaeontology and stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (CAS).

2009.09 – 2012.07. Master of Science; Major in Palaeontology and stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (CAS).

2005.09 – 2009.07. Bachelor of Engineering; major in geology, China University of Mining and Technology (Xuzhou).

Direction:

Mesozoic bivalve palaeontology, stratigraphy, palaeogeography, and geological evolution of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.

Achievements:
Publications:

Rao Xin*, Skelton Peter W.*, Sano Shin-ichi, Zhang Yiqiang, Zhang Yichun, Pan Yanhong, Cai Huawei, Peng Bo, Zhang Tong, Ma Zhaoxiong, 2020. Shajia, a new genus of polyconitid rudist from the Langshan Formation of the Lhasa Block, Tibet, and its palaeogeographical implications. Cretaceous Research, 105, 104151.

Rao Xin, Sha Jingeng*, Peng Bo, Zhang Xiaolin, Cai Huawei, 2019. Constraints of bipolar and tropical bivalves on the northward drifting of the Indian Plate. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 175, 68―73.

Rao Xin*, 2019. Biradiolites from the Yigeziya Formation of the Southwestern Tarim Basin. Open Journal of Geology, 9, 562―565.

Rao Xin*, Skelton Peter W., Sano Shin-ichi, Sha Jingeng, Wan Bin, 2019. Mid-Cretaceous rudist assemblage from the Lhasa Block, Tibet (China). In: Boughdiri M. et al. (eds.) Paleobiodiversity and Tectono-Sedimentary Records in the Mediterranean Tethys and Related Eastern Areas, Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. 91―94.

Rao Xin, Skelton Peter W., Sano Shin-ichi, Li Cai, Pan Yanhong, Luo Hui, Cai Huawei, Peng Bo, Sha Jingeng*, 2017. Evolution and palaeogeographical dispersion of the radiolitid rudist genus Auroradiolites (Bivalvia: Hippuritida), with descriptions of new material from Tibet and archived specimens from Afghanistan. Papers in Palaeontology, 3 (2): 297―315.

Rao Xin*, Skelton Peter W., Sha Jingeng, Cai Huawei, Iba Yasuhiro, 2015. Mid-Cretaceous rudists (Bivalvia: Hippuritida) from the Langshan Formation, Lhasa Block, Tibet. Papers in Palaeontology, 1(4): 401―424.

Xin Rao*, Bo Peng, Huawei Cai, 2019. Review on the study of Cretaceous rudists from the Lhasa Block. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 58(3): 363―371. (In Chinese)

Xin Rao*, Jingeng Sha, Yanhong Pan, Huawei Cai, 2012. Bournonia from the Late Cretaceous Zongshan Formation of Gamba , Xizang , and The Functional Morphology of Rudist Bivalves. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 51(4): 491―501. (In Chinese)

Yasuhiro Iba*, Shin-ichi Sano, Xin Rao, Dirk Fuchs, Tingen Chen, Robert Weis, Jingeng Sha, 2015. Early Jurassic belemnites from the Gondwana margin of the Southern Hemisphere―Sinemurian record from South Tibet. Gondwana Research, 28(2): 882―887.

Jingeng Sha*, Xin Rao, Huawei Cai, Yanhong Pan, Yaqiong Wang, 2014. Pan-tropical distribution of the Jurassic ostreid bivalves. Palaeoworld, 23(2): 155-161.

Jingeng Sha*, Xin Rao, Yanhong Pan, Yaqiong Wang and Huawei Cai, 2014. Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy of eastern Asia: Nonmarine and marine correlations; - In: Rocha, R., Pais, J., Kullberg, J. C. & Finney, S. (eds.) STRATI 2013. Springer Geology. First International Congress on Stratigraphy at the Cutting Edge of Stratigraphy: 587?590.

Baoyu Jiang, Xiaogang Yao, Yazhuo Niu, Xin Rao and Qijian Li, 2010. Outline of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Systems in Western Liaoning, NE China. 84 pp. (English version), 85 pp. (Chinese version); Hefei (University of Sciences & Technology of China Press)

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